Spring Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Pivotal Spring Framework
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 44 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing Spring 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.11% 0.56% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.06% 2.60% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £434 £403 -
25th Percentile £448 £408 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £419 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% - -
75th Percentile £478 £431 -
90th Percentile £484 £437 -
Wales median daily rate £475 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +13.43% -6.94% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Wales

Spring falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 66 77 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 18.33% 21.39% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 39 59
10th Percentile £363 £168 £206
25th Percentile £416 £215 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% +21.43% -30.00%
75th Percentile £563 £544 £490
90th Percentile £706 £550 £564
Wales median daily rate £475 £488 £388
% change year-on-year -2.56% +25.81% -18.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 0
10th Percentile £75.75 - -
25th Percentile £76.88 £20.12 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +275.00% - -
75th Percentile £85.63 £25.44 -
90th Percentile £86.75 £25.60 -
Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +263.64% - -

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Spring job vacancy trend in South Wales

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Spring

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Spring

Spring
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +3 4 £469 +11.94% 5
Spring
Wales

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) API Design
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google